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26 Clemson players opt-out of bowl game
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:10 AM Author: provocative immigrant Bowls are a joke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513249) |
Date: December 16th, 2025 9:18 AM Author: low-t parlor I hate this shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513270) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:21 AM Author: Talented Tanning Salon Idiot you voted for this. what did you think would happen as you turned the playoffs into march madness? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513276) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:26 AM Author: wine dopamine he literally did
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:20 AM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513436) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:31 AM Author: provocative immigrant SEC and the Big10 aren’t done yet. They have literal 100% control of the playoff per the contract and want to expand.
But don’t worry, mid-sized private catholic independent ND is ruining the sport. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:08 AM Author: low-t parlor I actually only wanted a 4 team playoff. This 12 team thing is ridiculous and I always maintained that position. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513520) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:14 AM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke Cr and it should be 3 or 4 SEC teams right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513535) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:20 AM Author: heady misanthropic internal respiration indirect expression Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Missouri sounds right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513547) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:21 AM Author: low-t parlor 3 SEC Teams, Ohio State, maybe one ACC school if the SEC has an off year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513554) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:56 PM Author: cordovan mentally impaired lettuce field "i wanted to ruin the traditional bowl structure. but not like this." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513871) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:19 AM Author: heady misanthropic internal respiration indirect expression (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513546) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:20 AM Author: Cruel-hearted legend It's sad because the bowls don't mean any less than the used to. Even before the CFP and BCS, only 2 or 3 bowl games at most involved teams competing for a national title. Players still played for pride and for fun and for their teammates. That's all gone in the course of 10 years or so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513275) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:36 AM Author: emerald stain they mean less since none of them are competing for even a top 10 finish relic of bygone era |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:38 AM Author: Hairless magenta center titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513466) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:23 AM Author: Cracking clear senate ceo Not a sportsmo, but why wouldn't they want to play in a bowl game? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513283) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:29 AM Author: provocative immigrant Anyone going to the NFL doesn’t want to risk ruining their draft status for an exhibition game. Add in players who are intending to transfer and don’t want to ruin their new NIL which is contingent on being healthy. It forms a real group foot a lot of people.
ND’s Jeremiah Love was saying that factored into their decision to decline a bowl. They thought it’d be a fraud to play the bowl game with 1/3 of the roster missing and have that game go on the record. The players wanted their last game played for the season to be a real game with the actual team. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:38 AM Author: emerald stain not really an exhibition game any more than any game is an exhibition game once you're out of the playoff hunt a bowl game is presumably a game against a good team, at least agree with your overall point, though |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:42 AM Author: wine dopamine THEY ARE ALL EXHIBITION GAMES there is nothing inherently "meaningful" about any game of football. it is just something to play and watch. the very *definition* of an exhibition.
sorry didn't mean to shout at you but this talking point drives me nuts |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:11 AM Author: emerald stain your talking point isn't even a point. if you can't recognize that some games have more value or different purposes than others, then you are just being dense. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:12 AM Author: wine dopamine tfw sealclubber calls u dense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513420) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:45 PM Author: emerald stain durr exhibition dense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513817) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:44 AM Author: Passionate Business Firm Boiling Water To be honest it probably has something to do with them spreading their nougat as a college student one more time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513336) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:19 AM Author: racy church chad "ND’s Jeremiah Love was saying that factored into their decision to decline a bowl. They thought it’d be a fraud to play the bowl game with 1/3 of the roster missing and have that game go on the record. The players wanted their last game played for the season to be a real game with the actual team."
i respect that. it's better than "we are butt hurt about missing the playoffs." |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:10 AM Author: low-t parlor He's gaslighting you guys. It really was "we are butt hurt about missing the playoffs." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513523) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 8:42 PM Author: Splenetic Tantric Mediation Public Bath But he is also right.
If Notre Dame plays with 1/3 their roster and loses, everyone says "See! They didn't belong" |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:25 AM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke College football is just a job like anything else now at least players are getting some $ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513442) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:44 AM Author: Wonderful Fiercely-loyal Area Factory Reset Button the same economic factors that are helping to cause this should be the same reason it's easy to fix. just have the NIL contracts impose massive penalties for skipping any game including a bowl game without injury.
probably inevitable too |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:12 AM Author: low-t parlor why wasn't this done after the FSU bowl debacle last year?
I ALWAYS SAID that paying players would ruin the sport, that they were coddled and got "enough" perks at the big programs, and I assumed there was backhanded payments to these players too. Even on xo there were lots of people like "but the players deserve to be paid."
Well here you go. Enjoy. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:17 AM Author: provocative immigrant You liked it plenty when the SEC was the only ones paying players. Now that everyone pays we see results like ND blowing out UGA in playoff game and the committee keeping teams like ND out to save face. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513541) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:21 AM Author: low-t parlor ND paid players too - all of the big programs had ways to funnel $$ from donors to the kids. One example that happens a lot - big donor car dealer owners "leasing" expensive cars to players for $1/year, etc etc etc
Stop gatekeeping.
Save face? ND was not a great team this year and did not deserve to be in the playoff. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:32 AM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513579) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:31 AM Author: wine dopamine it is inevitable but the NIL currently has this retarded figleaf where it cannot be "pay for play" What you are technically paying them for is the right to use their "name image or likeness." It's not the right to require them to play on the field. This is why it's still amateur sports you see. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:04 PM Author: Wonderful Fiercely-loyal Area Factory Reset Button not a lawyer but seems plausible to argue that a player being absent for his team's highest-profile game of the year reduces the value of his NIL significantly. anyways it's all probably moot in a few years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513909) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:06 AM Author: Multi-colored stage Once you are ***NFL SECURE*** or ***BIG NIL SECURE*** you'd have to be retarded to risk major injury or defacing this property for a bunch of stiffs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513512) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:51 PM Author: bateful territorial gaming laptop puppy 26 players on Clemson's shit team aren't going to NFL or good enough to get NIL they're just bitches. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513844) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:41 AM Author: opaque hominid fat ankles BCS was the best time for college football. sad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513596) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:42 AM Author: gay magical property ratface How can you guys still take this shit seriously lol it's so fucking over for college football it's about as "real" as the WWE at this point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513599) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:45 PM Author: provocative immigrant WWE is very real. If it was rigged, then explain fan favorite John Cena losing his last match? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513814) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:49 PM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513833) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:48 AM Author: Electric White State They're going to get together with the ND team and spend new years at a Steamworks lol'ing @ sportscucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513611) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:53 PM Author: bateful territorial gaming laptop puppy Between the portal, NIL, kids refusing to play, superconferences and this ever expanding playoff they're destroying everything enjoyable about CFB. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513850) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:56 PM Author: cordovan mentally impaired lettuce field *they've destroyed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513870) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:06 PM Author: Cruel-hearted legend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513916) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:10 PM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke It was destroyed by the BCS and it just kept getting worse after. CFB peaked in the mid 90s imo and I'm not a Nebraska fan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513929) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:14 PM Author: cordovan mentally impaired lettuce field remember the idiots who thought the BCS was so bad that they demanded a playoff? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513943) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke The BCS was fucking bad. BTW FCS has had a 180 playoff forever with no problems (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513985) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: bateful territorial gaming laptop puppy I could take a 4 or even 8 team MAX playoff but 12 is too many and talks of going to 24 are just dumb. The portal and NIL need to go and conferences need to be reset to 1990. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49513993) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 2:02 PM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke No its 180 having a big playoff. FCS lets every conference champ into the playoff and it means way more teams have something to play for. And you get underdog runs like Eastern Illinois making the semifinal this year.
Yale even won a playoff game & kept it close against Montana State.
If you're a fan of Wyoming or UConn or whatever why would you give a shit about CFB in its current state, you're locked out of ever playing a meaningful game basically. It destroys fan interest in programs and harms recruiting, it should be a national sport not a regional cartel |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:24 PM Author: cordovan mentally impaired lettuce field as bad it was, the BCS was way better all the shit that came after
FCS didnt have a 100 year beloved history of bowls to ruin |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:58 PM Author: filthy submissive yarmulke The Rose Bowl was the only one with any prestige left. The rest were corporate slop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49514113) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 2:25 PM Author: cordovan mentally impaired lettuce field i'd agree that GC started ruining shit before the BCS came along. that doesnt mean bowl traditions as pre-GC arent 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49514213) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: sexy histrionic dog poop roast beef this whole mess started when the NCAA couldn't just figure out a way for Michigan and Nebraska to play each other in 1997 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49514016) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:15 PM Author: Mint Crackhouse Place Of Business the bowls have been gay meaningless jokes for maybe like 20-25 years now. although the cotton bowl and a few other New Years Day games were still meaningful for a while during early BCS.
NIL and the portal completely killed the vibe. but it doesn't seem like fans of the biggest teams (e.g., tOSU, the SEC schools, that's about it, etc.) are enjoying the season any less during the throws of the conference schedule but my only reference point is a few friends. i'm not on the message boards or anything like that |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:26 PM Author: bateful territorial gaming laptop puppy the NIL, portal, playoff, etc...benefit by team and make us better and I still want to go back to the old ways. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49514006) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:56 PM Author: sexy histrionic dog poop roast beef is there any American institution that Obama didn't actively try to make worse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDuQe89kJM |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:26 PM Author: low-t parlor Yep (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49515527) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 11:06 AM Author: Hairless magenta center If the old (OLD) system was still in place: Oregon v. Indiana in the Rose Georgia v. tOSU in the Sugar TAMU v. TTEch in Cotton Oklahoma v. Ole Miss in Orange Miami v. ND in Fiesta All on New Years Day as the Good Lord intended. And if there is a controversy over who is crowned National Champions so be it-- keeps the pundits occupied for a while. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 11:07 AM Author: heady misanthropic internal respiration indirect expression That seems cool. Why don't we do something like that again? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49519046) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:08 AM Author: idiotic school cafeteria because you're gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49522212) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:02 AM Author: opaque hominid fat ankles this would be 180. very rarely is there ever a single best team anyway. certainly not this year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49522196) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:10 AM Author: sexy histrionic dog poop roast beef Can’t they make it a condition of their scholarship that they play every game? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49522217) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:39 PM Author: low-t parlor I don't understand why it is not. Seems elementary. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49522529) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:46 PM Author: provocative immigrant How would this work? You’re going to retroactively bill a 19 year old for $75,000 if he transfers before a bowl game? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49522554) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:28 PM Author: low-t parlor are they not normally paid in installments? I don't know how they work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49522847) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:49 PM Author: gay magical property ratface It's a competitive marketplace. Other schools will out compete anyone who tries to do that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49522559) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:42 PM Author: Dead step-uncle's house good. see ya. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810881&forum_id=2,#49522543) |